Quotes About Change

Sixteen years move in slow motion; then catch speed, fast, like the pages of a book being flipped.

Go make your mark on the world. Be a world changer! Live bold for Christ no matter the cost.

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.

Friends are like buses," I uncaringly replied as I took a hit off the joint, "if you miss one, sooner or later, another will come. The names of the routes change, but the destinations don't. It will always cost something to ride--nobody rides for free. And, they'll leave your ass if you don't get with the schedule.

People don't change that much. Instead of trying to put in what God left out, try drawing out what God left in!

Some nonproductive cultures are starving for a vision or central focus; others are wasting the energy of their people by regularly changing and manipulating the direction of their focus. Most contemporary companies are suffering from an assault on their basic expectations. Like the desk clerk, we have collectively learned not to trust and have developed a kind of shared helplessness.

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.

The idea that a sizable fraction of our carbon dioxide could stick around for hundreds of thousands of years hasn't reached mainstream consciousness yet,

Our Not Yet body of glory grows out of our Now body of struggle.

Every journey starts with a small step, every wave a ripple.

I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.

Each season I find myself constantly inspired by 'The Biggest Loser' contestants. Their tenacity and willingness to learn new, healthy habits is tremendous and the results speak for themselves. I am honored to be part of such an inspiring program that helps inspire positive change in so many lives.

Unjust systems appear normal to those in power, and any change will produce feelings of loss. True reconciliation, through the cross of Jesus, will affect the lives of the privileged. The colonizer has to completely leave the confines of power and privilege and join with those who are colonized. Of the colonizer Memmi declared, "let him adopt the colonized people and be adopted by them; let him become a turncoat.

Oftentimes the faith community historically has been on the wrong side, particularly as it relates to indigenous communities and sovereign nations who we are in relationship with. Today we decided to be on the right side.

The authenticity of any new society is built on the foundation of the ethics of that revolution.

change can be neither positive or negative

You can take this process a step further even without a mirror. Whenever you sense yourself slipping into a relational syndrome at work, immediately ask to see, in your mind's eye, what you have the opportunity to shift, embrace, or change. Then intend this change for yourself.

If you really desire workplace change, such as a promotion or a job, you have to clear your physical energetic field of everyone or everything in the way. Start by decluttering, throwing away everything at home or at work that no longer describes who you are. Toss that old paperwork and applications for jobs you didn't get. Ready to move forward? To attract workplace prosperity? Put red or purple objects in the southeast corner of your workspace.

For workplace physical stressors, I advise adding pink to our physical energetic boundary to transmute negativity for positive outcomes; gold to command change and immediately stop an energetic, personal, or professional attack; green to stop a repetitive pattern and initiate a new track; and silver to deflect others' issues and energies back to them.

Now ask the Divine to show you how many emotions from these outside sources are stealing energy from or dumping energy into your emotional field. Ask about the effects of any related syndrome. How is that syndrome affecting your work? Your career success? Your ability to motivate, make a difference, or be yourself at work? As you watch and perhaps sense the impact of this process, decide if you are willing to change the pattern of the syndrome.

If you are, simply request that the Divine change it for you.

Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event.

People might not change but their incentives could.

Too often, she looked forward to the end of something—to beginning the remembering—more than the thing itself.